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To: Toddsterpatriot
Taxpayers are keeping more of their income

Well that's great, except the problem is the government can't keep giving tax cuts indefinitely, especially if the median income they are subtracting from as a percentage keeps going down. The government needs a specific amount to operate, and right now it's spending more than it's earning, hence the skyrocketing debt. I applaud Bush's goal of cutting government waste and givaways, but unless he does it faster than is being approved, the government's required income is being squeezed between a falling income base of the citizens, and the reduced percentage they can extract as taxes.

243 posted on 02/19/2005 8:00:47 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Team America)
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To: Golden Eagle
Well that's great, except the problem is the government can't keep giving tax cuts indefinitely, especially if the median income they are subtracting from as a percentage keeps going down.

True, but as the graph in post #239 shows, median income usually drops during and immediately after a recession. I have no doubt median income will start rising again. And aside from income, household net-worth is at a record high.

246 posted on 02/19/2005 8:24:34 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Protectionism is economic ignorance!)
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